The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1887-12-31


would send me a dispatch and WAS To
60 in on that for all was worth and
as much more rs was able to get n
deal ON. Ii WIS to be make or break
this time, and lc staked his reputation
on il that IL was to he a make. He said
that OF course he could not enter into
particulars in letter. but | was ia
clear the decks for action and strike
quickly.
This letter naturally put me on net
ties, but all could do was to keep
track OF things as well rs possible and
wait for Virgins
after receiving the message that he
was To leave for Chicago that night ]
went home and nothing more occurred
that evening. but almost at daylight |
was awakened by n telegraph boy at
the door and got this second dis
patch. You will notice the word two
at the bottom of il. That means that
was to look up the words one by one
In the dictionary and counting each
word rs one and the next one below ms
two, the third one was the key 10 that
particular word. When the numeral
appeared at the beginning of n dispatch
was 10 use the same method but count
upwards Sometimes II the dispatch
was 10 be very secret numerals were
run in the text. and in that ease was
TO take the last liz the gas, and get
ting the dictionary wrote out the dis
patch Hero is n translation;
"'Scll Lake Shore Immediately. Mt
most quantity possible. You may be
sure had no moro sleep that morning
When the paper came | looked up the
stocks. although there was nothing
there but what | had known before.
Lake Shore was firm and 10 my notion
it seemed n better property 10 buy than
10 sell Still. as | said. had great
faith in Old Wiggins and | hoped his
pointer was on good authority, al
though who in Buffalo had been in n
position to know more about stocks
than was known in Chicago | couldn't
for the life of me tell.
"Oh. Buffalo isn't so slow rs som
people would like 10 make out" sal
the party from That city
"No." replied the jealous Toledo
man, "slowncss implies some move
mcnt however impcreeptblc. Buffalo
stands still"
"Well, it don't 20 backwards lkc
Toledo" said the man from Milwau-
kec.
"Gcntlemen. gcntlemenv / cried.
"no more of this. All lake cities are
great. especially Detroit Let the man
from Illinois go ON with his story"
IL was the first man in the Board OF
Trade building that morning ] was
rather nervous but sold Lake Shore
stock as IL owned the road and could
deliver it on the spot engaged sew
eral others to sell for mo as well. and
those who had conf ence in tn stock
Sc med 90 think il was concerted
movement to bear it aud they rallied Ia
its support. so that instead of going
down under the pressure the stock
crept slowly mp. At last the amount
had sold began to appal me. My hait
stood on end rs realized what rise
of few cents would do for us.
81 began to wish that Virgins would
show mp, and / concluded not 60 sell
any more until he came.
"At this moment one Of the biggest
operators on the board got n dispatch
that evidently made him vince. llc
had bought heavily. and after struttng
round as though nothing had ha 'pcncd
he began 30 cover More telegram.
came in, and before five minutes g.,
news was every ones property. Al
midnight the express from Buffalo had
gone down at Ashtabula and IL was
said Mt first that not "A passenger hao
escaped Tho bottom dropped clear
out OF Lake Shore stock rs quickly ~
the bottom had dropped out Of thai
bridge. ! knew that IL was the train
that Virgins had been on. and
chuckled at his presence Of mind IL
getting the messlgc through. IL had
probably gone lbruugh before message
had been stopped. aud rs il was in
cipher the operator had not objected t'
il, although don't know as thai
would have nattcrcd, for IL said moth.
ing about the accident. / was moi
alarmed about my partner, ~ | bad
had the message from him a ter the ac'
cident
WAS he hurt at alp" inquired tho
| Milwaukee man.
THAT is ~ hat We never found ont
have never seen Virgins since. Il was
generally supposed that he was killed
and burned with The others. went Il
Ashtabula. lat never got any trace oi
him or his body Yc' his friends in
Buffalo saw him ~ ON ttat train
Then vino g. Ilaavep's name sent
the dispatch2' rr.rl the Toledo man.
you've got mc there again re-
piled Mr.. Blun'.-L4tc Sharp, m De.
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